Mapping commercial intertextuality: HBO's true blood

Convergence

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 7-17

  Hardy, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

commercial intertextuality; critical political economy; cultural studies; True Blood

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952030880     PISSN: 13548565     EISSN: 17487382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354856510383359     Document Type: Review

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